The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Irish: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath) at Dublin, Ireland was established by Erwin Schrödinger in 1940. The institute currently has three constituent schools - The School of Celtic Studies, The School of Theoretical Physics and The School of Cosmic Physics (with three sections - The Astronomy Section, The Astrophysics Section, and The Geophysics Section).

The institute was created by Eamon de Valera who was the Taoiseach at the time of the institute's creation in the late 1930s - de Valera was greatly impressed by the idea of the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States created in 1930. The creation of the institute left some in academia and society of the time thinking that more important ways of using resources could have been found in Ireland at the time - elementary education was successfully completed only by the minority whilst university education was for the privileged.

See Also

• Quantum Physics

External Links

• DIAS Website
• Institute For Advanced Studies Act, 1940